Beep symptoms
Symptom or error
One beep and a blank,
unreadable, or flashing LCD.
One long and two short beeps,
and a blank or unreadable
LCD.
Two short beeps with error
codes.
Two short beeps with blank
screen.
Three short beeps, pause,
three more short beeps, and
one short beep.
Only cursor appears.
No beep symptoms
Symptom or error
No beep, power-on indicator
on, LCD blank, and no POST.
No beep, power-on indicator
on, and LCD blank during
POST.
The power-on password
prompt.
The hard-disk password
prompt.
The DOS full screen looks
smaller.
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ThinkPad A30, A30p (MT 2652/2653/2654)
Symptom-to-FRU index
FRU or action, in sequence
1. Reseat the LCD
connector.
2. LCD assembly.
3. External CRT.
4. System board.
1. System board.
2. LCD assembly.
3. DIMM.
POST error. See "Numeric
error codes" on page 48.
1. System board.
2. DIMM.
1. DIMM.
2. System board
Reinstall operating system.
FRU or action, in sequence
1. Make sure that every
connector is connected
tightly and correctly.
2. DIMM.
3. System board.
1. Reseat DIMM.
2. System board.
A power-on password or a
supervisor password is set.
Type the password and press
Enter.
A hard-disk password is set.
Type the password and press
Enter.
Start the ThinkPad
Configuration program and set
the Screen expansion
function.